Month: July 2009

I didn't actually see CNN's recent interview with Colin Powell that covered issues of racial profiling amongst others.  However the online summary is worth a look.  I wonder if he'll…

I couldn't resist one more post on Obama/Gates/Crowley.  I just loved this cartoon from the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Editorial Cartoonist, Jeff Darcy.  Image Source:  Cleveland.com

Yet another reason to be proud to be a Tar Heel! Image source: Wright House

Mike Koehler (pictured), set to embark on an academic career as an associate professor in the business school at Butler University this fall, has started a blog devoted to the…

Alabama authorities have busted a huge cigar counterfeiting ring involving hundreds of thousands of cigars.  Apparently, many were masquerading as Swisher Sweets an "affordably priced" brand that comes in packs…

Nouriel Roubini, Niall Ferguson, and Mort Zuckerman discuss whether the end of the recession is near on CNN.Embedded video from CNN Video (HT: Paul Kedrosky, who also gets credit for the title)

I'm probably the only Faculty Lounger nerdy enough to care about this, but here goes...The LONG awaited TRON sequel, Tron Legacy, is due to arrive in theaters in 2010/2011.  There's…

In what I *promise* (fingers crossed behind my back) will be my last post on the Gates/Obama/Crowley media triangle, I wanted to share a website that includes two poems about…

Or, almost.  A new study shows that a trucker's risk of collision rises 23 fold when the driver is texting.  If the DWI Blog is to believed, this is roughly the…

The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has indicated that it will reconsider its restrictive caps on payments to egg and sperm donors, due to donor shortages and the resulting…